Devils forge are good for the money but the blanket lining is bad for you you need to line it with refactory cement. Be ideal for a beginner. a coal or coke forge is a lot more tricky . Fire control and understand the heat takes a while. Coke also dear and harder got. Plenty blacksmiths do a weekend introductory course. Would be well worth doing. Have you got an anvil as there holding there money aswell.